OJ Simpson Sentenced to 15-33 Years in Prison

December 7th, 2008 | by Staff

Football legend OJ Simpson was sentenced to 15 – 33 years in prison by a Nevada judge yesterday (Dec. 5) for his role in a September 2007 armed robbery at the Palace Station Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, he will be eligible for parole in 9 years.

Simpson and co-defendant C.J. Stewart were convicted on 12 counts of kidnapping and robbery on October 3. Stewart was also sentenced to 15 years behind bars.

From Msnbc.com:A weary and beaten-looking O.J. Simpson was put away Friday for at least nine years — and perhaps the rest of his life — for an armed robbery in a hotel room, bringing a measure of satisfaction to those who believed the football star got away with murder more than a decade ago.

The 61-year-old Hall of Famer listened stone-faced, his wrists in shackles, as Judge Jackie Glass pronounced the sentence — 33 years behind bars with eligibility for parole after less than a third of that.

Moments before, Simpson made a rambling, five-minute plea for leniency, simultaneously apologizing for the holdup as a foolish mistake and trying to justify his actions.

He choked back tears as he told her: “I didn’t want to steal anything from anyone. … I’m sorry, sorry.”

The judge said several times that her sentence in the Las Vegas case had nothing to do with Simpson’s 1995 acquittal in the slaying of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman.

“I’m not here to try and cause any retribution or any payback for anything else,” Glass said.